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ibson’s is delighted to announce our forthcoming Australian, Maritime & Exploration auction featuring items of Australian historical interest and importance including Australian and Colonial Furniture, Decorative Arts, Paintings and Early Photography, Scrimshaw, Artefacts, Goldfields and Convict interest, Militaria, Books and Documents. Leading the sale is the exquisite Australian silver cake clock, commissioned by the Myer Emporium in celebration of the Centenary of Melbourne in 1934, made by renowned silversmiths, Steeth & Son, of Melbourne Cup fame. At almost five kilograms of silver, this example is twice the size of the model in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria and presents a unique opportunity for private collectors and institutions to acquire a piece of significant Victorian history.

ibson’s is delighted to announce our forthcoming Australian, Maritime & Exploration auction featuring items of Australian historical interest and importance including Australian and Colonial Furniture, Decorative Arts, Paintings and Early Photography, Scrimshaw, Artefacts, Goldfields and Convict interest, Militaria, Books and Documents.

Leading the sale is the exquisite Australian silver cake clock, commissioned by the Myer Emporium in celebration of the Centenary of Melbourne in 1934, made by renowned silversmiths, Steeth & Son, of Melbourne Cup fame. At almost five kilograms of silver, this example is twice the size of the model in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria and presents a unique opportunity for private collectors and institutions to acquire a piece of significant Victorian history.

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495<br />

A scale model pond yacht,<br />

20th century<br />

a single mast yacht in painted<br />

wood with three cotton sails,<br />

presented in a display cradle<br />

110cm high, 115cm long<br />

$300–500<br />

496<br />

A nickel plate cast metal lighthouse<br />

lamp, circa 1930<br />

modelled as a tapering lighthouse on<br />

a rocky outcrop, with a mottled glass<br />

orb shade<br />

48cm high<br />

$300–500<br />

497<br />

A small bronze bust of Horatio Lord<br />

Nelson, 19th century<br />

modelled in naval uniform with<br />

cross-sash and epaulettes<br />

20cm high<br />

$300–500<br />

498<br />

Diplomystus Dentatus, reputedly<br />

Eocene Period<br />

fossilized fish specimens<br />

sourced Lincoln County, Wyoming,<br />

USA<br />

31cm high, 67cm wide (irregular)<br />

PROVENANCE<br />

Crystal World, Melbourne<br />

$200–400<br />

499<br />

A hardstone axe head<br />

together with a bone carving and<br />

a white clay pipe marked 'EP'<br />

the bone carving 35cm long,<br />

the pipe 43cm long<br />

the axe head 25cm long,<br />

12cm at widest point<br />

$200–300<br />

500<br />

A fossilised stone encased trilobite<br />

30cm across<br />

$300–500<br />

501<br />

Two fossilised Diplomystus<br />

the largest 7.5 x 12cm<br />

$100–200<br />

502<br />

A collection of rock, geology<br />

and fossilised wood specimens,<br />

including hardstone arrowheads<br />

the largest 11cm long<br />

$200–300<br />

503<br />

A collection of fossilised teeth,<br />

mineralised mammoth tusk and<br />

mammoth ivory<br />

the largest piece 6cm long<br />

$300–500<br />

504<br />

Two painted and carved wood<br />

masks, Sepik River Region,<br />

Papua New Guinea<br />

Two carved and painted wood masks,<br />

Sepik River Region, Papua New<br />

Guinea<br />

including a black pigmented 'Spirit'<br />

mask<br />

the largest 54cm long<br />

$200–300<br />

505<br />

A carved wood crocodile, Bozo tribe,<br />

Mali, West Africa, early 20th century<br />

157cm long<br />

$100–200<br />

506<br />

A Fijian Kiakavo club,<br />

late 19th century<br />

85cm long<br />

$250–350<br />

507<br />

An aboriginal wooden spear-thrower,<br />

North Queensland<br />

with a wood peg attached at a<br />

right angle to distal end by fibre<br />

string and resin and two oval<br />

sections of bivalve shell attached<br />

to proximal end by resin<br />

82.5cm long<br />

$250–350<br />

508<br />

An early Massim lime spatula,<br />

Papua New Guinea<br />

39cm long<br />

$300–400<br />

509<br />

A decorative shell and feather mask,<br />

Papua New Guinea<br />

34cm diameter<br />

$100–200<br />

510<br />

A large ebony Massim sword club,<br />

Papua New Guinea<br />

77cm long<br />

$200–400<br />

511<br />

A large Huon Gulf Kundu drum,<br />

New Guinea<br />

an incised design to the<br />

central handle, with a lizard<br />

skin resonant head<br />

67cm high<br />

$100–200<br />

512<br />

A carved figural staff together<br />

with a Huon Gulf sago spoon<br />

the largest 100cm long<br />

$150–250<br />

513<br />

Two carved New Guinea crocodiles,<br />

together with a carved boab nut,<br />

Kimberley's, Western Australia<br />

the largest 85cm long<br />

$100–200<br />

514<br />

Two Dayak blowpipes,<br />

Berau District Borneo, Kalimantan<br />

both acquired in 1983, the shorter for<br />

active hunting use in the headwaters<br />

of the local river system; the longer<br />

acquired in the regional town of<br />

Tanjung Redeb; both blowpipes have<br />

matching bamboo arrow holders<br />

complete with arrows<br />

the largest blowpipe 205cm long<br />

the largest bamboo arrow holder<br />

32 x 5.5cm<br />

$350–450<br />

515<br />

A Papuan Gulf Gope board<br />

together with an Abelam mask<br />

the board 67cm long,<br />

the mask 49cm long<br />

$150–250

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